Number 9! Ninth altcoin thread. Back to the moon Baby!

[crazydane]

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!   

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[Marvell2]

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!   

how does 50kw cover 55 gpus ? 10kw won’t even cover one rig 24/7 or do u only mine during the day?

[Branko]

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!  

how does 50kw cover 55 gpus ? 10kw won’t even cover one rig 24/7 or do u only mine during the day?

kW <> kWh

Although, you're probably right and he mistakenly wrote kW instead jWh...otherwise, he has real solar plant over there,
like 200 average panels

[john1010]

It means that the gpu mining industry will alive again? is it the sign that im going to assemble my gpu rig again and participate the miners to solve every dag file needed to get an ETH reward.. If you have a good and potential coin to be mine, don't be hesitate to drop it here

[btcgolong]

I think it depends on what you pay for electricity and if you have already made money (and/or have the hardware) to re-invest.

ETH is on a tear...I think someone calculated that at current prices (if you have to buy new GPUs) you can recoup your money in 300 days...so if you already have the GPUs skip to step 4 and "profit" !

Many posters have cheap or "free" electricity.


What's your situation ?

[btcgolong]

A few weeks ago, I have started to revive and dusted off my old GPUs from the storeroom.... 13 x 1080tis, 6 x 1070ti and a few dozen 480s,470s and 1060/P106-100 .....   put them all to work under SMOS and Phoenixminer.

USB Linux SMOS for fast deployment under 1 dashboard.

Phoenixminer for ETH mining with lowest dev fee (compared to Claymore).

Highest density using K35 motherboards with 8 x PCI slots and Delta 2400w PSUs.

Since, everyone will be furiously mining ETH till POS.... I decided to do otherwise and point every ounce of hash and sell it to Nicehash, in exchange for BTC instead. I expect "crazy pricing" at Nicehash soon since they are crazies out there that would pay crazy rental prices at NH and MRR, especially for last few months of ETH POW.

All my GPU gear are ex 2016 and paid for several folds, so I guess this revival project will be the last hurray for these GPUs.

As for offsite hosting... I had to shutdown my 1ph SHA256 farm (33 x 30THs ASICs) but retained DCR and FPGA hosted mining to save on power bills. If BTC 20k.... even the 30Ths ASICs will make money and can be revived.

Good luck to us all!

thanks for the tips on getting my 4GB rigs up and running again, i really appreciate them!

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So, based on these results I will likely move all for AMD rigs over to Phoenix miner.  I do like the look of the SMOS Phil mentioned, but if this method works on my other 3 rigs, I will likely stay with it to avoid the extra cost and time.  If I was starting from scratch though that definitely looks like a cool way to manage rigs!

I think the 1080ti is worth more now !

[arielbit]

I remember philipma1957 theory back then that nvidia or amd can pump gpu mineable coin/s to be able to make a killing selling the upcoming-just at the corner release of new cards.

will it happen? 2017 shows it is profitable for them. just look how shitty grin is and the marketcap is small hehe

[citronick]

I remember philipma1957 theory back then that nvidia or amd can pump gpu mineable coin/s to be able to make a killing selling the upcoming-just at the corner release of new cards.

will it happen? 2017 shows it is profitable for them. just look how shitty grin is and the marketcap is small hehe

A few months ago, I shutdown my modest 40 rigs GPU farm and I invested in "a couple" FPGAs (Blackminer).

I maintained some of my 1080tis to mine on mostly speculative coins.... but ended up using the FPGA platform to mine new coins like TRB, KDA, AEON, PMEER to name a few. These past weeks, I have seen a single F1-Ultra making 12$ after power cost at today's TRB spot price.

Since last week, I have been dusting the rest of my 1080tis to mine ETH/Nicehash.... all 13 of them brings me around 20$-24$ per day but electricty will still take a bulk of the takings.

Moving forward, unlike 2017... Looks like I have to use them FPGAs because a single FPGA can replace dozens of GPUs, consuming only a fraction of power bill. Some other coins that I am mining.... like Nimiq, Verus is currently best on GPU, CPU POW respectively.

I have not bought any new GPUs and I am not sure I will ever will because when a new promising coin comes about, I will just load up the bitstream image on the FPGA and mine you go.

I guess the miners journey from GPUs to CPUs to ASICs to FPGAs: to learn, adapt and keep up to speed on the various mining strategies and their communities like Phil's thread.

Great mining everyone.... everything is green at the moment...... good luck to us all!

[GabryRox]

Hello everyone. A few days ago I posted about getting 1 of my RX 470-4GB rigs going again by using the latest Phoenix miner and switching my Primary Display to onboard/internal graphics through the BIOS of my ASRock Pro BTC MB.  That is still working perfectly, but I just tried doing the same on another 470-4GB rig built on a Biostar TB85 MB and can't seem to get the display switched over to internal.

Was hoping that some of you are running this or similar Biostar board and might be able to help.  These are the BIOS settings I have tried. Prior to this, all options were set to "Auto" with the monitor plugged into 1 of the 470's:

-  Primary Display = IGFX  (with IGFX "ebabled")
-  Primary Display = IGFX  (with IGFX "auto")
-  Primary Display = Auto  (with IGFX "enabled")
-  Primary Display = Auto  (with IGFX "auto")

In some combinations, it still shows video while connected to my 470 (when i made this change on the ASRock MB, it wouldnt display while plugged into my 470 immediately after applying the BIOS change and reboot, but when i plugged into the MB, it worked immediately).

When i switch the monitor cable over to the MB, once i got the screen to appear but it was super focussed (meaning the screen was magnified beyond use). When I rebooted i just got what appeared to be a windows hang, then a black screen where i could move my mouse cursor but do nothing else.

FYI:  I can get the BIOS screen to display with the monitor plugged into the MB's VGA port, just cant get a usable windows screen to appear that way.  Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!

[philipma1957]

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!  

as are the ones I held on to. 🙂



at gabyrox open an account on smos

2 dollars a month for the 1 rig.

you dont have to pay more then a month at a time.


meanwhile

I am doing okay with the gpus and the monero.
I am doing okay with the farm in clifton.

I am doing a major hodl in doge.

2,000,000 coins. they moved from 4600 usd to 7000 usd.

I really would like to,hold them until 2022 I would be 65.

[crazydane]

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!  

how does 50kw cover 55 gpus ? 10kw won’t even cover one rig 24/7 or do u only mine during the day?

207 panels in total with an average rating of about 270 watts.  So total DC power is actually a little over 55,000 watts.

The GPU rigs consume about 9 kW 24/7.  I then have some exhaust fans running as well, so the actual daily power consumption is around 215 kWh.  For the month of July, my average daily production was 237 kWh, so a little but more than what my rigs consumed.  On cool and clear spring and fall days, I peak out at around 350 kWh of production per day.

During the winter months I of course produce less.  January of this year averaged 128 kWh a day, so not quite enough to power the mining rigs.  However, I keep the rigs up at the house during the winter, so I don't need to run my heat pump at all, is it balances out.

I have net metering with the power company, so on sunny days I pump way more kWh back into the grid that I consume, and I then pull it back out at night or on rainy days.  It is all kWh based, so no funny business with me paying them like 12 cents per kWh to draw from the grid and they only payment me a fraction of that when I push power into the grid.  Around my parts, the cost per kWh is constant 24/7 365 days a year.

[arielbit]

I remember philipma1957 theory back then that nvidia or amd can pump gpu mineable coin/s to be able to make a killing selling the upcoming-just at the corner release of new cards.

will it happen? 2017 shows it is profitable for them. just look how shitty grin is and the marketcap is small hehe

A few months ago, I shutdown my modest 40 rigs GPU farm and I invested in "a couple" FPGAs (Blackminer).

I maintained some of my 1080tis to mine on mostly speculative coins.... but ended up using the FPGA platform to mine new coins like TRB, KDA, AEON, PMEER to name a few. These past weeks, I have seen a single F1-Ultra making 12$ after power cost at today's TRB spot price.

Since last week, I have been dusting the rest of my 1080tis to mine ETH/Nicehash.... all 13 of them brings me around 20$-24$ per day but electricty will still take a bulk of the takings.

Moving forward, unlike 2017... Looks like I have to use them FPGAs because a single FPGA can replace dozens of GPUs, consuming only a fraction of power bill. Some other coins that I am mining.... like Nimiq, Verus is currently best on GPU, CPU POW respectively.

I have not bought any new GPUs and I am not sure I will ever will because when a new promising coin comes about, I will just load up the bitstream image on the FPGA and mine you go.

I guess the miners journey from GPUs to CPUs to ASICs to FPGAs: to learn, adapt and keep up to speed on the various mining strategies and their communities like Phil's thread.

Great mining everyone.... everything is green at the moment...... good luck to us all!

you learn and adapt, then the coins learn and adapt, then the market learn and adapt. it is a shit show  LOL

just be good at each of us do best

time is also a factor, circumstances and opportunities differ, some make more by trading and they don't care an ounce of shit about mining.

[GabryRox]

Thanks Phil for the SMOS recommendation to circumvent my display/driver issues on my 470-4GB rigs.  I am at the point now where I am going to give SMOS a try, as I have fought even my other ASRock MB rig with insane driver issues and finally ended up with Win-10 getting corrupted beyond repair yesterday.

However, I do have a few questions for you or anyone else running SMOS, especially with 4-GB GPUs very recently...

General Usage/Install:  do i have this correct for using SMOS?
- Download SMOS to USB Stick
- Plug into USB MB slot on rig
- Enter BIOS and switch boot order to USB priority 1
- Reboot and then SMOS installs/loads?
- Then after install, so I need to keep that USB plugged in or is there some way port SMOS over to the SSD on that rig?

Specifically for a rig with only 4GB GPUs where i cannot as of yet switch the main display to Internal Graphics:
- Will SMOS still work to mine ETH if my primary display is still plugged into the 4GB GPU-0 in the x16 slot?

Finally, is it true that no separate driver or miner software is needed outside of SMOS?  If not, does that mean that all of these are already loaded in that OS?

Thanks again for all the help!

[philipma1957]

Thanks Phil for the SMOS recommendation to circumvent my display/driver issues on my 470-4GB rigs.  I am at the point now where I am going to give SMOS a try, as I have fought even my other ASRock MB rig with insane driver issues and finally ended up with Win-10 getting corrupted beyond repair yesterday.

However, I do have a few questions for you or anyone else running SMOS, especially with 4-GB GPUs very recently...

General Usage/Install:  do i have this correct for using SMOS?
- Download SMOS to USB Stick
- Plug into USB MB slot on rig
- Enter BIOS and switch boot order to USB priority 1
- Reboot and then SMOS installs/loads?
- Then after install, so I need to keep that USB plugged in or is there some way port SMOS over to the SSD on that rig?

Specifically for a rig with only 4GB GPUs where i cannot as of yet switch the main display to Internal Graphics:
- Will SMOS still work to mine ETH if my primary display is still plugged into the 4GB GPU-0 in the x16 slot?

Finally, is it true that no separate driver or miner software is needed outside of SMOS?  If not, does that mean that all of these are already loaded in that OS?

Thanks again for all the help!

you need to open an account with an email you control.

You can set up 1 rig for 1 month for free. I will help you set up an eth bat

once you load the usb stick you need to open it and put in your email you control.

you need to set bios to allow booting to be the usb stick.

you boot the stick you keep the stick in 24/7/365 it acts as the hard drive.  the regular hard drive stands idle.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MUF-128AB-AM-Plus-128GB/dp/B07D7SX9NS/ref=sr_1_12?

the stick above is good and big enough it also stays out of the way when it is plugged in.

[Marvell2]

the problem with smos is you habe to premod your cards, you can’t use claymore straps

[GabryRox]

the problem with smos is you habe to premod your cards, you can’t use claymore straps

That particular issue is not a problem for me since I already BIOS-modded-strapped all of my RX 470's.

However, I was just about to download the SMOS image and flash to my USB stick when i read on their site that this does not currently support Wi-Fi?!?!  Is that correct? 

That will be a problem for me as all my rigs are wi-fi based and spread throughout my house  to spread the heat out. 

[philipma1957]

the problem with smos is you habe to premod your cards, you can’t use claymore straps

That particular issue is not a problem for me since I already BIOS-modded-strapped all of my RX 470's.

However, I was just about to download the SMOS image and flash to my USB stick when i read on their site that this does not currently support Wi-Fi?!?!  Is that correct? 

That will be a problem for me as all my rigs are wi-fi based and spread throughout my house  to spread the heat out. 

then do just 1 rig with it.

[deadsix]

- Then after install, so I need to keep that USB plugged in or is there some way port SMOS over to the SSD on that rig?

I ususally install smos on the ssd's instead of USB sticks - I use an ssd to usb adapter and plug them in like a normal usb drive - use rufus to write the os to them

Specifically for a rig with only 4GB GPUs where i cannot as of yet switch the main display to Internal Graphics:
- Will SMOS still work to mine ETH if my primary display is still plugged into the 4GB GPU-0 in the x16 slot?

Absolutely. You can run the system headless, smOS is built for headless miners and unified dashboard control so you just need to use a pc/laptop/phone to login to the account from a browser, and you can control all of your miners from there.

Finally, is it true that no separate driver or miner software is needed outside of SMOS?  If not, does that mean that all of these are already loaded in that OS?

No, smOS has drivers built in but will download whatever miner you select from the dashboard-configuration at runtime - having all miners pre-added would make the file too large for 8gb usb sticks. But its not something you need to "do", all you need to do is select the miner from a dropdown on the configuration screen (unified dashboard), add in pool wallet etc and smOS will download the miner, apply the config/settings and run it.

[GabryRox]

- Then after install, so I need to keep that USB plugged in or is there some way port SMOS over to the SSD on that rig?

I ususally install smos on the ssd's instead of USB sticks - I use an ssd to usb adapter and plug them in like a normal usb drive - use rufus to write the os to them

Specifically for a rig with only 4GB GPUs where i cannot as of yet switch the main display to Internal Graphics:
- Will SMOS still work to mine ETH if my primary display is still plugged into the 4GB GPU-0 in the x16 slot?

Absolutely. You can run the system headless, smOS is built for headless miners and unified dashboard control so you just need to use a pc/laptop/phone to login to the account from a browser, and you can control all of your miners from there.

Finally, is it true that no separate driver or miner software is needed outside of SMOS?  If not, does that mean that all of these are already loaded in that OS?

No, smOS has drivers built in but will download whatever miner you select from the dashboard-configuration at runtime - having all miners pre-added would make the file too large for 8gb usb sticks. But its not something you need to "do", all you need to do is select the miner from a dropdown on the configuration screen (unified dashboard), add in pool wallet etc and smOS will download the miner, apply the config/settings and run it.

THanks

Thanks for the feedback, i really appreciate it!  Regarding my concern about SMOS no being wi-fi capable... I logged onto their Discord yesterday and a couple regulars there were quite helpful in suggesting use of a PowerLine Ethernet Adapter, so I ordered 1 and will try it out over the next few days.  I hope I can get that option to work as I was very eager to try this out and salvage that rig.

[GabryRox]

Hey Phil... did I see you mention recently that you are still mining XMR?  If so, can I assume you are doing so with CPUs not GPUs?  Mining calculators indicate GPU-mining of XMR at a loss, even given it's recent price increase so I assume you are using other methods.  If using CPUs, would you mind sharing which you are using and their results?